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  1. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    7: ...xplored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]...
    11: ...e]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him fo...
    13: ...s surname. The Latin roots of his name can be translated "Christ-bearer, Dove". Columbus' signature re...
    27: ...ent a year on a ship bound towards [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visi...
    35: ...a Islands]] and owned one of them ([[Porto Santo Island]]), but died when Felipa was a baby, leaving h...
  2. Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
  3. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    24: ...rd]] at [[Mont鰩lloy]] on [[August 15]] led to a slow march toward Paris. An attack on the city fina...
    59: ...of Clermont, Guy de Cailly, etc) could simultaneously experience her visions. As written in the testim...
    128: ...ing Saint Joan of Arc, including biographies, translations, and other original research by the author.
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    125: *[[Zdzislaw Beksinski]] ([[1929]]-)
    131: *[[George Wesley Bellows]] ([[1882]]-[[1925]])
    302: *[[Boleslaw Cybis]] ([[1895]]-[[1957]])
    305: *[[Wladyslaw Czachorski]] ([[1850]]-[[1911]])
    324: *[[Stanislaw Debicki]] ([[1866]]-[[1924]])
  5. Medieval music (31843 bytes)
    17: ...ature indicated a change. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the fi...
    19: ...written in different tempus signatures simultaneously. Many scholars, citing a lack of positive attr...
    27: .... The Mozarabic liturgy even survived through [[Muslim]] rule, though this was an isolated strand and ...
    71: ...ur parts, and have multiple texts sung simultaneously. These texts can be either sacred or secular in...
    102: ...is for only two voices) that are more regular and slower moving. This type of texture remained a feat...
  6. Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
    5: ...]] made [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Old Church Slavonic]] the dominant written languages.
    78: *''[[Proslogium]]'', [[Anselm of Canterbury]]
    128: **[[Medieval Slavic literature]]
  7. List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
    35: **[[Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary]]
    169: * [[Stanislaw Samostrzelnik]]
  8. Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
    16: ...as such Josquin is seen as someone who simultaneously brought together most of the contemporary trends...
    18: ...d in the libraries of [[Munich]], [[Vienna]], [[Basle]], [[Berlin]], the [[Ratisbon]] cathedral, and [...
  9. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    836: | <small>[[Posthumous execution|Posthumously executed]] following the [[Cadaver Synod]]</smal...
    1697: | <small>Michele Ghislieri</small>
    2007: ... the first historian to number the popes continuously. His list ends in [[1049]] with [[Pope Leo IX]] ...
    2014: ...Martin III respectively, and so, somewhat erroneously, Simon de Brion became [[pope Martin IV]].
  10. Michel de Montaigne (5245 bytes)
    12: He started to write in 1569, first a translation of the Spanish monk [[Raymond Sebond]]'s ''T...
    37: ...ge]] necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of [[romantic love]] as b...
  11. Causes of the French Revolution (11170 bytes)
    2: ...ed and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these i...
    5: ... of [[feudalism]]. Similarly, the peasants covetously eyed the relatively greater prerogatives of the ...
    13: ...nch monarchy had operated without resort to a legislature. Kings had managed their fiscal affairs by i...
  12. List of people associated with the French Revolution (16148 bytes)
    31: *[[Pierre Joseph Cambon]] - Member of the Legislative and the Convention, directed French financia...
  13. Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
    21: ...sister [[Isabella of France|Isabella]] had previously married [[Edward II of England|King Edward II]] ...
    38: ...as almost completely destroyed in the [[Battle of Sluys]]. After this, England was able to dominate th...
    74: ...enry's early death in [[1422]], almost simultaneously with that of his father-in-law, his baby son was...
    86: Warfare changed tremendously during the Hundred Years' War. From the type of ...
    96: ...English even apologized for fighting non-chivalrously, saying they had no choice since they were so un...
  14. Mathematician (9627 bytes)
    9: ... fact some of the best mathematicians are notoriously bad at these tasks! On the other hand, there ar...
    41: ... sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is imm...
    48: ...mmable in the room with water. He then returns to sleep.
    50: ...s, which are extinguished. Smiling, he returns to sleep.
    52: ...solution exists," he murmurs - and returns to his slumbers.
  15. List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
    1: ...English language|English]] [[alphabet]]ical [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]).
    44: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]]-[[1087]])
    105: *[[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] (Poland/Russia/Germany [[1868]] ...
    260: *[[Franc Forstneric]] (Slovenia, [[1958-]])
    317: *[[John Hammersley]]
  16. List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
    42: *[[Arzachel (Al-Zarqali)]] (Muslim Spain, [[1028]] &ndash; [[1087]])
    67: *[[Antonin Becvar]] ([[Slovakia]], [[1901]] &ndash; [[1965]])
    104: *[[S. W. Burnham|Sherburne Wesley Burnham]] ([[1838]] &ndash; [[1921]])
    133: *[[Andrew Ainslie Common]] ([[Britain]], [[1841]] &ndash; [[1903]...
    162: *[[Henri-Alexandre Deslandres]] ([[France]], [[1853]] &ndash; [[1948]])
  17. List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
    162: *[[Monroe Beardsley]], (1915-1985)
    490: *[[Miroslaw Dzielski]], (1941-1989)
    652: *[[Wawrzyniec Grzymala Goslicki]] (1530-1607)
    705: *[[Eduard Hanslick]], (1825-1904){{fn|R}}
    774: *[[Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld]], (1879-1918){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}}
  18. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    5: ...ecks. Although Christians were not allowed to buy slaves, male or female, and had few other privileges...
    9: ... distinguish itself in battles with the [[Islam|Muslims]], its soldiers wearing a black surcoat with a...
    15: ...They also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]]...
    19: ...n the Magnificent]] delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this force the Knights had about 7,00...
    25: ...ord the King of Sicily. Their annual fee for the island was a single [[Maltese falcon]], which they ha...
  19. Voltaire (48640 bytes)
    20: ...e II of Orl�ans|the regent]] and treated graciously, he was not trusted. ''Oedipe'' was performed at...
    28: ... In November he caught [[smallpox]] and was seriously ill, so that the book was not given to the world...
    44: ...t to [[Rouen]] to get ''Charles XII'' surreptitiously printed. In [[1732]] two more [[tragedy|tragedie...
    62: ... Frederick which nobody seems to have taken seriously, and after his return the oscillation between Br...
    70: ...d established herself at the court of King [[Stanislaus I of Poland]], and carried on a liaison with t...
  20. Opera (25153 bytes)
    11: ... opera which is essentially presented in a restlessly melodic arioso style throughout. All types of si...
    69: ...trum, in part as a function of the more general [[Slavophilism]] movement.
    84: ...an opera must be realized in a production, even a slender one, for its impact. Thus there exists a "so...

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